The seminar aims to:

- Introduce holistic model of stress and raise understanding of stress causes, mechanisms and effects
- Raise understanding of how stress impacts teaching and learning ability
- Reduce the consequences of stress (such as poor health, absenteeism, lack of creativity, ineffective communication, inability to focus, more conflicts etc.) dramatically and develop healthy ways of dealing with everyday work demands and build culture that fosters effectiveness, team work, creativity and mutual respect
- Provide the participants with practical tools for dealing with stress on everyday basis (an approach validated by extensive research and by such prestigious institutions as the Mayo Clinic & the Harvard Institute for Mind Body Medicine)
- Prevent burn-out syndrome in educators
- Enhance understanding of emotions and raise self awareness
- Increase understanding of the role of emotions in teaching and learning
- Introduce practical tools for coping with difficult emotions
- Improve the participants emotional balance
- Help the participants to identify their stress triggers and emotional triggers at work context and come up with new, more resourceful strategies
- Develop better communication skills in the participants (based on authenticity, empathy and objectivity)
- Offer techniques for accessing more of creative potential of the mind
- Expand the participants access to their intuition
- Help the participants to identify and eliminate obstacles for being at their best
- Take advantage of international group and enable exchange of experiences and ideas